The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete (2 Volume Set)

Here in two volumes is every word that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ever wrote about the adventures of the detective and the doctor… fifty-six short stories and four complete novels arranged chronologically from Holmess first case in 1874 when he was a university student to his signal service to the British Empire in the opening days of the First World War. William S. Baring-Gould the editor who was one of the greatest Sherlockian authorities wrote two previous volumes about the Sage of Baker Street…The Chronological Holmes and Sherlock Homes of Baker Street: A Life of the Worlds First Consulting Dectective. To this work he contributed eleven fascinating chapters of introduction on Conan Doyle on Holmes and Watson and the evil Professor James Moriarty and on the Baker Street scene.; he also provided interludes that throw a new light on many perplexing problems raised by Watsons writings; and in addition annotated each adventure from his vast collection of Writings about the Writings. He amassed as well form files of yellowing books and magazines British and American hundreds of illuminating maps diagrams coats of arms photographs and drawings for inclusion in this collection. All the most celebrated illustrators of the Canon are represented among them Sidney Paget of the Strand Frederic Dorr Steele of Colliers and William H. Hyde of Harpers Weekly as well as numerous others.